Annals of the Dudley Observatory
The original Scheutz Calculating Machine was sold to the Dudley Observatory
of Albany, New York, USA, in 1856. Subsequently a duplicate was made
and the second machine remains in London. Both machines would ultimately
reside in their respective national museums, the Smithsonian and the
British Museum.

While at the Dudley Observatory the Scheutz machine was used some and
its operation is described in some detail in the Annals of the
Dudley Observatory, published in 1866. A notice of it's publication
appeared in the Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society at that time.

I was able to obtain a copy of this book from the Library of Congress
and I have scanned and OCR'd the pages relevant to the Scheutz machine
for this website. The remainder of the book consists mostly of tables of numbers.

The frontispiece included an engraving of the Observatory grounds.
(Click to enlarge)

There was also a two-page fold-out of the Scheutz machine.
(Click to enlarge)

Click below for pages 116-126 from the Annals of the Dudley Observatory

An email from the current Dudley Observatory archivist, Josh Hauck, provides some insight
into the machine's history:

Unfortunately, the two directors who worked with the Scheutz the most both left the
Observatory on bad terms. George Washington Hough, director from 1861-1873, was
the most technically minded of our directors and probably worked with it the most.
However, he was laid off and took his papers with him to Northwestern University.
http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-nua-archon-1387

The first director, Benjamin Gould, actually purchased the Scheutz. Unfortunately,
the end of his tenure was epic. (See Mary Ann James "Elites in Conflict" for the blow-by-blow).
I haven't figured out where the bulk of his papers ended up.

The bulk of our papers come from the tenure of Lewis & Benjamin Boss. By the time of
Lewis Boss, the Scheutz was acting up and Boss wrote it off as no longer usable.

We still have some of the original print outs from the Scheutz, mostly pasted into observation notebooks. That appears to be all we have left of the Scheutz.

"The observation books are a bit too large to scan properly, but here's a snapshot
of one. This is from Sept. 1871, under George Washington Hough. You can see that
Hough pasted the print-outs into a spare notebook and made notes and calculation on them."